Press release
Western Digital Extends Capacity-Enterprise HDD Technology Leadership into Broad Family of Data Center Solutions Enabling Unmatched TCO
Company Announces Worldwide Availability of 16TB and 18TB Capacities for Ultrastar® HDDs, WD Gold™ HDDs and Ultrastar Storage Platforms, Serving a Diverse
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCompany Announces Worldwide Availability of 16TB and 18TB Capacities for Ultrastar® HDDs, WD Gold™ HDDs and Ultrastar Storage Platforms, Serving a Diverse Set of Workloads from Big Data and Enterprise/SMB Storage to SDS and Hyperscale Deployments \n\n\nNews Highlights:\n\n\n\nWestern Digital’s market-leading HDD innovations – including the first commercial implementation of energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technology, the industry’s first triple-stage actuator (TSA), and the sixth generation product with HelioSeal® technology – extend across its enhanced data center portfolio to deliver the highest areal density and unmatched total cost of ownership (TCO) value for a variety of customer and market needs.\n\n\nNew WD Gold 16TB and 18TB HDDs are now available in the channel for system integrators and resellers serving enterprises and SMBs who need more reliable storage for big data and enterprise storage workloads compared to traditional desktop-class HDDs.\n\n\nShipping since March to select hyperscale and enterprise OEM customers, including Datto, DDN and Dropbox, the new 16TB and 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 CMR HDDs are now available for cloud, large enterprise customers and other data center architects looking for the highest capacity with low power for designing more efficient infrastructures. The 20TB Ultrastar DC HC650 host-managed SMR HDDs continue to ship for qualification.\n\n\nThe Ultrastar Data60 and Data102 JBODs and the Serv60+8 storage server now feature 16TB and 18TB Ultrastar CMR HDDs, delivering the industry’s highest storage density in a fully optimized platform for added durability and data reliability for software-defined storage (SDS) environments. Ultrastar platforms with 20TB SMR HDDs are expected to be available next quarter.\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nContinuously innovating to help organizations keep pace with rapidly expanding volumes of data, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it is extending its HDD technology and capacity leadership into its broader portfolio of data center solutions. Leveraging innovations from the Ultrastar 18TB and 20TB HDD technology platform, the WD Gold family now features new 16TB and 18TB CMR HDD capacities. Also available are an upgraded line of Ultrastar JBOD platforms and an Ultrastar hybrid storage server featuring Ultrastar 16TB and...